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Archaeological-revival gold and green glass bead necklace, circa 1880
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
The gold beaded chain decorated with a fringe of gold grapevine leaves alternating with clusters of green glass beads simulating grapes, length 14¾ inches, unsigned.
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, April 27, 1987, lot 53.
Exhibited
Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry, The Bard Graduate Center, New York, November 2004-February 2005, p. 347, no. 30. Also exhibited at Somerset House, London, June-September 2005, and Villa Giulia, Rome, November 2005-February 2006.
Catalogue Note
A similar grapevine necklace appeared in the exhibition Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the Nineteenth Century, Wartski, London, March 1984, no. 19.
The design of this necklace and the necklaces in lots 19 and 28 derives from Hellenistic jewels, most notably earrings from the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. See The Necklace, from Antiquity to the Present, Mascetti and Triossi, pp. 116-117.